Netanyahu's Concordia's Failed Conquest

For the record, and in case a sound reason was needed as to why the valiant from Montreal blocked Netanyahu from a private speech at Concordia back in September 2002, here it is:

1- The issue of freedom of speech

If it were an issue of freedom of speech, how come attendance to his "lecture" was by invitation only. This meant that the sponsors of this visit meant to use the University's facilities for hosting a private event rather than an activity of "the halls of academia" as Netanyahu so poetically put it. Furthermore to this apprent abuse of the academic facilities for private and pure propagandist motivations, the organisers have exhausted the security services of the city and the University. To add insult to injury, this very privately purposed visitor had the audacity, to say the least, to blame security forces for what happened. He had no right to use tax-payers services the way he did to begin with and he apprently still wanted more!

If it were a question of stopping Netanyahu from "excercising his right to free speech", how come nobody tried to disrupt his press conference at the Ritz where he was staying, just a few hundred meters from the venue of his Concordia speech. In addition, being invited by The Asper Foundation, Netanyahu has nothing if not a guranteed channel to one of Canada's largest Media beasts; Global Communications. Much has been said about Isreal Asper's diretives to his media empire to polish the image of Israel and tarnish that of Arabs and Muslims alike.

If anybody needs to have a venue to express opinions, it is the people you have been demonizing as disruptive. The people that Netanyahu called terrorist. This person, who is neither a guest of the Government of Quebec nor of Canada, the same person that cost the University of Concordia so much and the City of Montreal even more is pompus enough to tell us what is Canadian and what is not!

2- Call for investigation

Concordia was not shut down on the day of Netanyahu's inauspicious visit. Nevertheless, Concordia called the police once demonstrators were demonstrating from within the building were the ex-PM was supposed to speak. Who made the call that riot police was to be sent? Riot police is trained to handle riots and not peaceful demonstrators excercising their freedom of speech. Once riot police tried to remove the people from within the building, things turned violent and understandbly so since that is the environment of training these forces receive. There were no riot police officers outside because there was no rioting, it is very simple. The window was broken after the officers started roughing it with the demonstrators piling on top of arrestees who were not resisting to begin with. Where was your coverage of this??? Where was your coverage of indiscriminate tear gasing and pepper spraying??? Many people were hurt trying to leave while the police was spraying and arresting. Seeing what was happening through the glass window, somebody threw something enraged at the scenes of needless violence.

Even when the police was clearing up the street, they arrested people very violently although they wer simply sitting on the ground, some with their hands behind their back ready to be arrested! What kind of subjugation policy does the police exercise and if it is not policy then what is it that drives policemen and women to behave so?

3- Reputation of Concordia and Expelling Students

It is a farce when media sources suggest that academic instituions damage their reputation by demonstrating students. If this was the case, Yale University would have ruined during the 1960's, just for example sake.

To suggest that Concordia has the right to expel students given all the aspects discussed above in the first point about ABUSE of the campus and the resources of the university and the city is another farce when those who should be questioned are the Concordia's management that allowed and authorized such abuse.

Fuck you Bibi!